"Unquestionably the best book for any jazz instrumentalist to buy.
I've bought many and this is the only one I keep coming back to.
The book is organized as lessons, one by Ernie Watts, one by Lenny
Pickett, each with some text, some sheet music, and a recording of the
actual player playing the lesson. The lesson by Watts is killin'. You
see the music on paper — OK, that's cool, but to hear him play this
stuff is amazing — an apparently simple triad exercise turns into a killin' jam, playing nothing but the triad exercise
— and he plays a
lot of different exercises including one Trane used to play — enough
to keep me working for months."